It is tragic that the courts have to protect the true diversity of South Africa, with a dozen languages, from the ANC regime, and it remains unfortunate that the ANC government preaches diversity, yet applies monolingualism. This ruling is appropriate on the eve of Heritage Day, in that it recognized the language rights of students, and imposes a specific obligation with regard to execution on Unisa. It is equally unfortunate that language and cultural communities have to turn to the courts in the final instance, to claim their rights as diverse languages with specific reference to Afrikaans, especially at historically Afrikaans universities.
The Afrikanerbond yesterday issued a statement noting with satisfaction the ruling by the Constitutional Court, that UNISA’s language policy is unconstitutional and unlawful. They took the opportunity to congratulate AfriForum on instituting proceedings against Unisa, and on their perseverance over the course of five years to h
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